codingquark @codingquark@mathstodon.xyz

Finally got up to the woods. Barely recognised the place.

Lots of interesting species clustered at the interface of the birch meadow and forest.

the immediate ancestor of european chess is the perso-arabic game of šaṭranj (شَطْرَنْج), which developed out the indian game of caturaṅga (चतुरङ्ग) probably around the 7th century ce, and crossed into sicily and al-andalus from the maghreb around the 10th century. the name of this game gives the name of chess in the ibero-romance languages eg spanish ajedrez, portuguese xadrez (from old portugues axadrez); typical of arabic loans into ibero-romance, the arabic definite article aš- has been reinterpreted as part of the word. the words in the germanic (english chess, german schach), italian (scacco), gallo-romance (french echeque, catalonian xec), and slavic languages (russian шахматы šakhmaty, polish szachy) instead come from the persian word šâh, 'king', in the expression šâh mât, literally '(the) king (is) amazed' but reinterpreted in arabic to mean 'the king is dead', whence also 'check' and 'checkmate'

Tweaking my flight setup so I can keep more of it set up permanently - I want it to take less effort before doing a casual sim flight.

@murilove these are 2D Turing Machines called "Turmites". The rules are for the two states and specify, based on the pixel color at the current position, the tuple of which color to write at that pixel, the direction to turn, and the next state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turmite

And now I notice that enabling virtio-scsi causes data corruption in the VM. Great.